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- Latin · derived frominsinuatio
- Middle French · borrowed frominsinuation
- English todayinsinuation
Borrowed from Middle French insinuation, from Old French, from Latin insinuatio, from īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.